Category: Arts and Culture

  • East Brunswick Organizations Get $57,8050 In Arts Funding

    East Brunswick Organizations Get $57,8050 In Arts Funding

    EAST BUNSWICK, NJ – East Brunswick has received $57,850 in grants from the Arts Institute of Middlesex County for the year 2025. The amount will go toward the various arts and culture programming in the Township. The recipients include the Recreation Department, The East Brunswick Symphony Orchestra, Playhouse 22 and EB Indie Film Festival “Arts…

  • These are the must-visit museums opening in 2025, according to Lonely Planet

    These are the must-visit museums opening in 2025, according to Lonely Planet

    What’s integral to a good city? Sure, great places to shop, eat and dance are a must, but so is a knockout museum, and 2025 is set to see plenty of shiny new cultural spaces open their doors to visitors.  Time Out published a list of all the best exhibitions launching over the year ahead, but…

  • February 2025 Arts & Culture events in the Hub City

    February 2025 Arts & Culture events in the Hub City

    FROM THE JACKSON ARTS COUNCIL: 19 hours ago February Arts & Culture Jan 30 – Feb 1 – The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time, 7:00 & 2:00 p.m., The Ned Feb 1 – 28 – The Griot Collective of West TN Student Poetry Contest Feb 1 – The Carnegie Grand Opening, 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.,…

  • People share experiences with incarceration at Golden Hour Books

    People share experiences with incarceration at Golden Hour Books

    Have fun exploring the city with Play List, Mirror Indy’s midweek arts and culture newsletter. Sign up here: Support local news Our journalism will always be free because of donations from readers like you. Formerly incarcerated people will share their stories at Golden Hour Books on Feb. 6. “We don’t often get to listen to…

  • Arts and Culture Events for the Week Ahead

    Arts and Culture Events for the Week Ahead

    Jiab Prachakul (Courtesy of the Contemporary Austin) Jiab Prachakul: Sweet Solitude Through August 3, The Contemporary Austin Whoever says Austin isn’t a fine art town can get the hell out of here. We continually break artistic ground with innovative and international taste. The Contemporary once again adds to that rep by hosting artist Jiab Prachakul’s…

  • Who Offers The Best Arts And Culture? We Do, Naturally

    Who Offers The Best Arts And Culture? We Do, Naturally

    You’ll read in this issue of the Plain Talk that Vermillion is one of 20 smaller communities across the nation nominated by an expert panel for offering the best arts and culture in the country. USA Today wonders which of the 20 tops the list in its “10 Best Readers’ Choice” feature and people who…

  • How artist Yinka Ilori is using AI to bring his vision to life

    How artist Yinka Ilori is using AI to bring his vision to life

    A musical playground In Dreaming with Flamingos, my first digital interactive artwork, you play as a young flamingo tasked to restore a park’s lost song. Help the elder flamingos remember their lost wisdom — the life force that once fueled this musical playground — by solving riddles within the game. Each solved riddle reveals a…

  • Transcending Crisis Mode: Why Arts Philanthropy Must Move from Reactivity to Proactivity

    Transcending Crisis Mode: Why Arts Philanthropy Must Move from Reactivity to Proactivity

    The Getty Villa’s aggressive brush-trimming measures helped it come through the fires undamaged. Photo by David Swanson / AFP The recent wildfires in Los Angeles have caused staggering losses for the arts community, destroying not just homes and studios but irreplaceable cultural artifacts and works of art. From artists losing pieces they had been working…

  • Is Quebec’s arts and culture community in a recession?

    Is Quebec’s arts and culture community in a recession?

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  • Can a merger of two Oregon arts agencies bring stability to cultural funding in the Trump era?

    Can a merger of two Oregon arts agencies bring stability to cultural funding in the Trump era?

    The last half decade has been difficult for artists and culture creators in Oregon and across the country. The COVID pandemic was hard on arts organizations, as audiences have been slow to return and relief money has dried up. And the new administration of President Donald Trump hasn’t brought more stability. Earlier this week, Trump…